Chapotraphouse

I can see how this is demoralizing... though, that isn't how I took it. People very seldom change their opinions in the middle of conversations. This guy thought he had a novel observation about modern working life, only to learn it's two centuries old and shared by a group of people he's been told are evil and stupid and responsible for nearly everything bad in the world. Of course he's gonna recoil from that.

But in the same way a person doesn't change opinions all at once, I don't think he's gonna just "get over it". Gotta give people time to stew. Let em think on it in their own time. Maybe he papers over the contradiction, willfully stops thinking about it. Or maybe it nags at him. Only time will tell.

There's no need to do anything. Chuds do this to themselves constantly. That's why they're chuds lmaoooo

75% of their time is spent being mad at things and the other 25% is making up things to be mad at.

Is that the sequel to arrested development?

Might also be structured odd since this guy is an author; I know some I've talked to tend to start portraying every anecdote like it's a part of a story they're in and makes things start feeling fake even if I know they occurred.

https://redsails.org/masses-elites-and-rebels/

Accept instead that they have been avoiding those truths for a reason. You were able to break through the propaganda barrier, and so could they if they really wanted to. Many of these people see you as the fool, and in many cases not without reason. Understanding people as intelligent beings, craft a political strategy that convincingly makes the case for why they and their lot are very likely to benefit from joining your political project. Not in some utopian infinite timescale, but soon. If you cannot make this case, then forget about convincing the person in question. Focus instead on finding other people to whom such a case can be made. This will lead you directly to class analysis.

There is no such thing as brainwashing

Anyone working in counter-propaganda can testify to a curious experience: we’ll put in hours of careful research collecting an impeccable set of resources that undermines some warmongering narrative, and we’ll eagerly share it with someone who claims to despise racism in all its forms — say, an outspoken opponent of the West’s so-called “War on Terror.” Unexpectedly, we are met with a response that is somewhere between chilly reticence and downright hostility. What’s going on?

From our perspective, we’re offering water to a person who’s self-identified as thirsty, and yet they react as if we were trying to poison them! They turn on a dime to defend the same institutions whose lies they were denouncing just moments before. At this point the sense of pride and accomplishment that comes from seeing through propaganda and putting puzzle pieces together into a satisfying historical account gets brutally transformed into its exact opposite: a sense of crushing defeat. In response to this bitter experience, many researchers — serious people, with plenty of experience reading and writing, and sometimes even of being published! — lash out. They decide that people have been “brainwashed” beyond the point where they can be reached by words or rational appeal. They “realize” that the masters of propaganda have been far more successful than we first imagined: it turns out we’re not David fighting Goliath, we’re more like an ant facing an asteroid.

https://redsails.org/masses-elites-and-rebels

This is my experience taking too my friends. We're doomed

We do not love to see it folks

This is the infuriating thing, a thousand of him turn their heads at something fundamental about their lives that bothers them because it's Marxists offering a solution, and end up dooming us all.

I've said it before and I'll say it again, it's fucks like this that willfully choose ignorance that are the true enemies of change, and there are billions of them.

Click the tie, bratan.